Jane Roe
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Wed Jan-28-04 12:15 PM
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| 58. So any group of beings can be denied human rights . . . |
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Edited on Wed Jan-28-04 12:20 PM by Jane Roe
because there is no meaningful boundary between humanity and non-humanity, no external criteria by which to judge who the 'true' hmans really are?
This sounds like a dangerous political philosophy to me. Sounds like the type of philosophy that leads to things like Negro slavery, infanticide and Holocausts.
On edit, further thought: maybe "expresses itself as a functioning individual" is your key criterion for human life. What does "expresses itself as a functioning individual" mean? Is it something that automatically starts happening the second the umbilical is cut? Does it stop happening when a person become old and listless in a nursing home bed?
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